Asteroidea, Portlandian, Isle of Portland (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 7.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Portland Stone Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• Pseudogigas zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: D. B. Blake. 1986. Some new post-Paleozoic sea stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata) and comments on taxon endurance. Journal of Paleontology 60(5):1103-1119 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59916: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 20.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
 Paxillosida - Pseudarchasteridae
Pseudarchaster portlandicus Hess 1955 sea star